Fighting Heats Up North Of Afghan Capital Kabul

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November 12, 1996

KABUL, AFGHANISTAN — Fighting on the front lines north of the Afghan capital Kabul intensified Monday, with the radical Islamic Taliban militia and its opponents exchanging tank, artillery and rocket rounds. A Taliban commander on the so-called old road, which runs up the western side of the broad valley north of Kabul, said the fighting there had moved closer to his positions.